"That's mean!" cried Nancy petulantly. "It's just as mean as it can be! Why didn't you come earlier?"
"Well, I did come right after supper—"
"Then what you got to go so soon for?"
"Why—why, my mother's got to go to see a sick lady."
"A sick lady? Who's sick that your mother's got to go and see, I'd like to know?"
"I guess you don't know everybody that's sick!"
"I guess I know everybody that's sick that your mother's got to go and see! Now, who is it?"
"It's Auntie Emma! Yah, you didn't know she was sick at all! Did you?"
"Well, it must have been awful sudden, because I saw her go by just yesterday."
"Sudden! I guess it was sudden. She was sittin' at the supper table jus' well as you are, and Bingo! she fell right out of her chair onto the floor sick abed!"